When a serial killer shows up on Longboat Key, Florida, after a twelve year absence, Matt Royal is stymied. Matt's friend, Longboat Key detective Jennifer Diane (J.D.) Duncan investigates the murders but also seems to be a target of the killer. Why? And where has the killer been for the past twelve years? And why has he come to Longboat Key when his earlier kills were all in Miami? The mystery deepens when Guatemalan gangbangers try to kill Matt and J.D. and suspicions grow that Mexican drug cartels are somehow involved. Matt's life is further complicated by J.D.'s growing dissatisfaction with island living and her thoughts of returning to Miami.